SCORETOP shut down?

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Tillicollapse: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 2; Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:10 pm

by Tillicollapse » Thu May 15, 2008 7:50 am

Is anyone else having difficulty accessing scoretop? It appears that the server is down or the site is shut down permanently. ANyone know?

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by netigen » Thu May 15, 2008 7:58 am

This was expected. If you search on this forum you will know why.

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Tillicollapse: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 2; Joined: Tue Feb 19, 2008 12:10 pm

by Tillicollapse » Thu May 15, 2008 10:13 am

Well I'm aware there used to be copy righted material posted there However, since Jan 2007 they've stopped that and started a new VIP service.

Does anyone know if this a regular occurence with them?

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by beatthegmat » Thu May 15, 2008 3:23 pm

Moved this discussion to the Lounge.

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wizardofwashington: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 71; Joined: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:29 pmFollowed by: 1 member; Location: USA; Thanked: 12 times

ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail

by wizardofwashington » Fri May 16, 2008 7:31 am

Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
[email protected]

dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com

hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply

Dear member,

This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:

Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
[email protected] www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.

Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
--------------------------------------------------------

A falling tree resounds... but a forest grows in silence...

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Stuart@KaplanGMAT: GMAT Instructor; Posts: 3225; Joined: Tue Jan 08, 2008 2:40 pmFollowed by: 614 members; Location: Toronto; Thanked: 1710 times; GMAT Score:800

Re: ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail

by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Fri May 16, 2008 9:42 pm

Only a truly crazy person would follow those instructions!

wizardofwashington wrote:Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
[email protected]

dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com

hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply

Dear member,

This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:

Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
[email protected] www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.

Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
--------------------------------------------------------

Stuart Kovinsky | Kaplan GMAT Faculty | Toronto

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VAULT_KY: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:21 pm

by VAULT_KY » Sat May 17, 2008 7:34 am

whts the exact status/reality with scoretop site
ne clue
still not able to access the site
Pls reply urgently

Regards

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chidcguy: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 438; Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:44 am; Thanked: 26 times

Re: ScoreTop - Creepy E-mail

by chidcguy » Sat May 17, 2008 11:14 am

wizardofwashington wrote:Did anyone receive this message via e-mail about from ScoreTop:
I got alarmed with the description inside, which had all the signs of a potential "Hack" job.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
fromzhang belinda <belindazhang0310>
[email protected]

dateFri, May 16, 2008 at 5:23 AM
subjectscoretop
mailed-bygmail.com

hide details 5:23 AM (6 hours ago) Reply

Dear member,

This is an email from scoretop. I'm so sorry for this discommodiousness. If you want to access scoretop again, try following steps:

Please open the following file on your computer using Notepad:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
then add the following line to the file:
[email protected] www.scoretop.com
save the file, and then you should be able to access ScoreTop again.

Best Regards,
The ScoreTop Team
GMATer
--------------------------------------------------------

The hosts file syntax is

IP-address wesbite

I don't know what the email address in between

It really should not hurt using the IP address and website. You can always edit the entry. That said, It looks like the site has been hacked and not taken down because of lawsuit. I googled for lawsuit against scoretop by GMAC and I am not getting any results. BTW, Ping, nslookup and traceroute all fail with the IP Address listed. So its not a correct one.

If ST is actually violating GMAT rules by publishing same/similar Q's from original GMAT, How good is any one's percentile who has scored 99 percentile and has been with ST and How bad is some one who scored 90/93 percentile without ST.

Jeez! Looks like all the GMAT scores are skewed and no wonder the 99 percentile climbed from 740 to 750 to 760 to 800???

My post is not intended to flame any one. I feel that its not fair to every one. Is it clear that they are NOT using copyrighted material any more? What do they teach in VIP section?

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chicagoboy09: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Sat May 17, 2008 4:32 pm; Location: Mexico

by chicagoboy09 » Sun May 18, 2008 10:00 pm

So, what should we do about that email from scoretop?
should we follow instructions?? has anyone done it??

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rahul194978: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 1; Joined: Fri May 02, 2008 9:02 am; Thanked: 1 times

my pc crashed, when i did what the scoretop mail said

by rahul194978 » Mon May 19, 2008 1:07 am

my pc crashed, when i did what the scoretop mail said.

DO NOT TRY IT

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chidcguy: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 438; Joined: Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:44 am; Thanked: 26 times

by chidcguy » Mon May 19, 2008 7:33 am

C mon, You cant have a PC crashed by editing hosts file.

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parore26: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 147; Joined: Wed Apr 25, 2007 10:43 amFollowed by: 1 member; Location: New York, NY; Thanked: 19 times

by parore26 » Tue May 20, 2008 2:10 am

You can on Windows

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